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Show 376 MR. W. WARREN ON NEW GENERA AND [Apr. 18, with the exterior and submarginal lines represented. Underside whitish, suffused and mottled with fuscous, with theceU-spots large and dark; the outer line in both wings dark, denticulate, and picked out with white; face, head, patagia, thorax, and extreme base of wings whitish; abdomen fuscous. Expanse of wings 26 millim. Hah. Sikkim. Very much like Epirrhoe minuta, Butler, but larger and darker. The two form a group by themselves, being distinguished by the irregularly elbowed hind margin of both wings. EPIRRHOE SUBFALCATA, sp. n. 3. Fore wings wdiitish, dusted with fuscous, and with fuscous markings; basal patch fuscous, traversed by a narrow paler fascia, edged with a whitish line, which is angulated on the subcostal; central fascia edged internally with a similar white line, which forms a small sharp tooth on the median ; space between the basal patch and central fascia whitish, thickly dusted with fuscous grey; central fascia nearly twice as broad on the costa as on the inner margin, traversed by two paler sinuous lines which form a more or less regular series of curves inwardly concave; space immediately beyond whitish, running in in the form of small, sharp teeth along each vein; a dark blotch on costa before apex, consisting of 3 superposed blunt wedge-shaped spots; a dark cloud at the apex, and 3 dark triangular blotches beneath the apex along the hind margin ; fringes fuscous, with blackish marks along the base. Hind wings white, tinged with grey, and with faint traces of 3 curved fascia? before the hind margin and an indistinct cell-dot. Head, thorax, and abdomen all fuscous grey. Underside whitish, tinged with grey; the fore wings from base to outer edge of central fascia darker grey ; cell-spot on both wings large, diffuse. Expanse of wings 32 millim. Hab. Kulu (Grahame Young). Distinguished by the slightly produced apex and slightly falcate fore wings. XANTHORRHOE, Hiib. Verz. p. 327. Type, X. montanata, Schiff. Male antenna? pectinated. XANTHORRHOE OBFUSCATA, sp. n. Fore wings pale grey, dusted with ochreous, and variously suffused with smoky fuscous; this smoky suffusion generally embraces the basal \ or § along the costa, the apical region, and the anal angle; the exterior edge of the central fascia forms 2 rounded projections, each having 3 lobes, the first in the costal third, the second in the middle of the wing, the lower third of the central fascia running vertically waved; it is followed by a pale grey wavy fascia traversed by one or two darker lines, and a succession of wavy dark and lighter lines can be sometimes traced |
